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...course, as the police admitted last week, it is hard to be absolute about what is political wheeling and dealing and what is breaking the law. But if enough Israelis conclude that the stench of scandal is too strong, they may be willing to help bring Netanyahu's bare-knuckle career...
...bare bones of a story are found in the synopsis in the press kit, not in the play itself. A Jewish man (Tony Shalhoub) comes back to his old childhood haunts and visits an old buddy (Vincent Guastaferro), his sister (Brooke Adams) and finally goes back and leaves his wife (Rebecca Pidgeon...
...being withheld from the reader and at the same time invited the reader's imagination to fill in the blanks. The stories in the news were no less interesting than the Oates story about Swimmers or Conroy's story about the curse of a mad father, but they were bare bones, hints. How could they be otherwise? If reporters had the license of artists, one would have been able to read the California cultists' last-minute thoughts as they slipped the plastic bags over their heads, and to understand their terrible bliss. One might have known if James Earl...
Residual loyalty and gratitude for his leadership were enough to help Gingrich survive his ethics troubles and win another term as Speaker, though by a bare three votes. Some members thought that reaffirmation would bring back the old big-think, follow-me-to-Armageddon Newt; instead they got a warm and fuzzy Tickle Me Newtie. He seemed to go out of his way to lower his profile and not give offense. For weeks the public explanation for Gingrich's disappearance was that he was strategizing about the budget; yet when asked about his plans at the January G.O.P. retreat...
...recent New Yorker review, Anthony Lane describes the movie Crash as "bare-assed philosophy." NPR commentator David Sedaris' new book of humorous essays, Naked, delivers glimpses of, so to speak, a philosophy of the bare...